Past Vibes
August 24, 2026 - September 06, 2026
This Week’s Theme: Mental Health is for Everyone: Journal Kickoff
Just be… YOU. Welcome home!
Set your daily intention- how you start and end your day impacts your wellness. Invest in your mind, invest in your future!
Journal Prompt:
Name one emotion you’ve felt this week. What triggered it? How did you respond to it?
Vibe:
Just Be… Open
This Week's Vibe
WELCOME to the Just Be…mental wellness website. The purpose of this website is to provide you with information that will aid and help you succeed during your time in college and beyond. One of the practices that research shows to enhance individual wellness is journaling, or rather taking a moment to stop, reflect, and plan. Additionally, research suggests that journaling can enhance social comfort and increase interpersonal skills such as talking (conversation), listening, and forming relationships (Pennebaker and Graybeal 2001).
Elliot DI Faculty Fellow Profile – Hadi RahmatiWhen School of Visual Communication Design Assistant Professor Hadi Rahmati met Computer Science Assistant Professor Raiful Hasan at Kent State University's new faculty orientation in 2023, their conversation about their respective research interests led to an important project. They're working together to solve a big problem: how can self-driving cars communicate better with pedestrians?Based on suggestions from Hasan, Rahmati read about 20 research articles on human-machine interaction and noticed something important was missing. None of t...
